Every day we speak with software engineers trying to find a
productive approach for application development that requires a
combination of BigData, Fast Data, and Complex Data solutions. In this
presentation we will first describe when to use BigData solutions like
Hadoop and Cassandra, then we will cover concepts around Fast Data
solutions like in-memory graph databases, and finally we discuss use
cases for Complex Data that thrive with Semantic Technologies.

The second part of this talk discusses a combined platform
architecture for real time semantic entity tracking that needs the
scale of Hadoop but also the speed of in-memory databases and the
complexity of semantic technologies. We will discuss best practices
for managing scalability solutions, ETL pipeline strategies, and
complex event processing (CEP).

Franz Inc.'s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the September
Semantic Technology Conference in London. The Semantic Technology &
Business Conference (SemTechBiz) brings together today's industry
thought leaders and practitioners to explore the challenges and
opportunities jointly impacting both corporate business leaders and
technologists. Attendees benefit from this unique opportunity to
explore how semantic solutions and linked data are being embraced
throughout companies across a diverse range of business
categories.

Packed with innovative panels, case studies and real-world
perspectives, SemTechBiz offers one tutorial day and two comprehensive
full days of fresh insight and immersive learning from global experts
in technology, financial services, healthcare, publishing, search,
mobile and enterprise data. An exhibit hall will also showcase the
latest tools and solutions across the Semantic and Big Data
landscape. Attendees come to SemTechBiz for the practical advice,
hands-on guidance and meaningful takeaways that our business
luminaries and subject matter veterans bring to the table.

MongoDB ('mongo' is from "humongous") is a scalable,
high-performance, open source NoSQL document based database. MongoDB
provides JSON style document based storage with full text indexing,
replication, sharding, MAP/REDUCE support and a rich document-based
query language. It does not provide good support for complicated
joins, linked data, graph analysis or rules.

By connecting AllegroGraph to MongoDB, it is possible to query graph
style linked data and document based data in a single
query. AllegroGraph can query MongoDB databases using SPARQL. The
interface is similar to what we provide for Solr and for the built-in
free-text indexes. See the AllegroGraph MongoDB Interface documentation here.

See all of the new version 4.8 features in the AllegroGraph
product description here.

There is a new outline view for browsing and editing linked nodes
as an indented outline. It is especially useful for viewing
hierarchies of nodes such as those using rdfs:subClassOf or
skos:narrower predicates, and editing them by shifting nodes around
(perhaps while adding new nodes as well).

For additional information on the new release, including an Outline View Tutorial, see here.

Intel - Big Memory, Big Data, and the
Semantic Web. "Techniques like MapReduce and NoSQL products based on
them are fine for some problems," said Mitch Shults, Mission-Critical
Segment Strategist, Intel Data Center Group. "To achieve high
performance against meaningful amounts of triplestore data, however,
you just can't afford to be traipsing all over the network to pull
things together. This result demonstrates the incredible value that
affordable large-scale, big-memory server platforms built around the
Intel Xeon E7 server platform can deliver for next-generation
workloads like triple stores." For additional information, see here.

Semanticweb.com: What One Trillion Means for the Semantic
Web. Mitchell Shults commented on the significance of Franz's recent
success loading one trillion triplestores. Shults writes, Triplestores
are perfect for making sense out of extremely complex data. However, a
triplestore is only useful if massive quantities of information can be
loaded, updated and effectively queried in a reasonable amount of
time. That is why Franz's Technology announcement is so
interesting. Read the rest of the article here.

Amdocs - "Semantics - the B2C Game Changer" (Video):
Bill Guinn, CTO Product Enablers, Amdocs Product Business Unit,
delivered a keynote at the 2011 Semantic Technology Conference in San
Francisco. His talk was one of the highlights for anyone interested in
how Semantic Technology can be used in enterprise systems. Watch the
video here.

KRSTE.my (Knowledge Resource for Science and
Technology Excellence, Malaysia) is an initiative, based on
AllegroGraph, by MOSTI and spearheaded by MASTIC to address science
and technology issues and challenges faced by the community, the
ministry and the country. KRSTE.my is designed to be a Single Point
Access Facilities (SPAF) providing intelligent collaborative knowledge
management and learning services platform on Science and Technology
and Innovation. More info
here.

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